This paper examines a specific kind of syntactic alternation in Cantonese, involving a single verb benefactive construction, and a serial verb benefactive construction. The former is a ditransitive construction with a single predicate and two contiguous objects (double object construction). The latter comprises a verbal complex of two transitive predicates with noncontiguous objects in a monocl...

The increasing production of electronic (digital) texts (either on the Web or in other electronically available forms, such as digital libraries or archives) demands appropriate computer tools that can help human users in text manipulation and, additionally, in performing automatic processing of language resources. In the first place, a natural language processing (NLP) system needs to implemen...

This study was aimed to analyze the semantic verb types and predicates construction in Karo language. The data obtained from native speakers of language with open interview techniques. Data were analyzed by descriptive analyzes. result analysis classification type Primary A: Motion, Rest, B: Speaking, Secondary Trying, C: Help predicate constructions founded several forms, they were: First, arg...

In many western Austronesian languages, the fact that an agentive argument lacks full control is morphologically marked on verb. The formatives used for this purpose are often also found stative predicates, and it has been suggested limited-control predicates stative-like in they denote result state of a given eventuality. Here we argue limitedcontrol differ from both dynamic constitute categor...

This article is a contribution to the research on noun predication in Polish. More specifically, it focusses role of support verb (Vsup) verb-noun constructions. In this type structure, also called collocation, or conventionalized syntagma, collocated with an abstract noun. paper, Grażyna Vetulani discusses some crucial aspects Vsup Despite its apparently subordinated non-predicative role, brin...

This thesis surveys the interaction between non-verbal predication in matrix clauses and processes of head-movement. Focusing mainly on the syntax of Modern Irish nominal predicates, it is claimed that matrix non-verbal predication can occur without any verbal support. When this happens, non-verbal predicates bear inflectional features directly and behave just like verbs with respect to process...